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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2026 · 41 MIN

Trump Says He's Disappointed in NATO

from Balance of Power · host Bloomberg

Insight & analysis on the White House and Capitol Hill.Watch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.Europe is learning how to say “no” to Donald Trump over his war in Iran.Nearly three weeks into the expanding conflict, European leaders have stopped equivocating and started outright telling the US president they won’t help his campaign with Israel.“We will not participate in this war,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday night. “We will not do it.”“The simple answer is no,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis echoed at a Bloomberg event in Athens on Tuesday. “Norway will not do that,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store agreed in Oslo.It’s a notable trajectory since the start of the war, when European leaders evaded questions about international law and heaped scorn on the Iranian regime. Merz even initially said he was “on the same page” as Trump. Now the denunciations are targeting Trump himself.Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy. On this edition, Joe and Kailey speak with: Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Tyler Kendall. Republican Congressman Michael McCaul, former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman. Stonecourt Capital Partner Rick Davis and Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino. J Street Senior Vice President Ilan Goldenberg. Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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